How to get best price on stone slabs?
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PROBeth H. :
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoif you go to a slab yard yourself, maybe take a designer friend or contractor w/you, and offer to pay in cash, you can usually score a better deal. A lot of times they have their own fabricators on hand to cut it for you. But any fabricator you hire will prob take care of delivery. I know one of the guys I have does.
you can find an entire granite slab for $900. most of the regular quartz slabs are in the 2K realm. Something like TajMajal quartzite, will be close to 3K.
I just saw an entire slab of super white at my own tile/stone place on sale for under $1500. for the whole slab.
Fabrication and install is usually 2-4K, give or take. (and depending on the size of the countertops, island, etc)
If you can find a remnant or a prefab countertop (usually under $500) you can have it fabricated for about 1200 or so.
heck, I put Super White in my bathroom. I got this remnant piece and had it cut and installed for a total of $700.
But I used my own fabricator guy and he got the remnant for me.
Porcelain slabs have come a long way. and if you need two, these are matched.
you could prob offer 4K cash, out the door, and they'd take it. fabrication would prob be another 4 or more, depending on the size of the fireplace.HU-844128727 thanked Beth H. :
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HU-844128727
3 years ago
It’s not a small fireplace as you can see. I don’t want to do anything ornate, just basically a slab refacing over the front and straight lines everywhere. It’s kind of a large fireplace as it has the wood storage, and looking for ideas to make it nice but keep costs down as we have a lot of other things we are doing!
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Beth H. :
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI added a bunch more pics to my comment, above.
here are a few others if you want to paint. (and you have nothing to lose by painting it first)
you could even make a surround from MDF and paint it and the brick
you could just do something like this and paint the brick, or tile the inner portionthis one turned out cool. they did a solid piece of soapstone on the inner portion, cement tiles on the hearth and the vertical wood shiplap elsewhere
like the thick wood mantle beams. cheap and easy w/some DIY
keep your hearth or get a remnant stone piece
try something a bit more modern looking like they did here
can you DIY? these show diff techniques if you want to tile or even do reclaimed wood
I love the black though. w/the black vertical ship lap above
HU-844128727
3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago
Beth H. :